The neurosciences have advanced to the point that we can now treat consciousness as a scientific problem like any other. The problem is to explain how brain processes cause consciousness and how consciousness is realized in the brain. Progress is impeded by a number of philosophical mistakes, and the aim of this paper is to remove nine of those mistakes: (i) consciousness cannot be defined; (ii...

The human character can be understood as an extension of the life mission or purpose of life, and explained as the primary tool of a person to impact others and express the purpose of life. Repression of the human character makes it impossible for a person to realize his personal mission in life and, therefore, is one of the primary causes of self-repression resulting in poor quality of life, h...

The purpose of this special issue and the conference that inspired it was to address the issue of conceptual integration in a science of consciousness. We felt this to be important, for while current efforts to scientifically investigate consciousness are taking place in an interdisciplinary context, it often seems as though the very terms being used to sustain a sense of interdisciplinary coop...

What brings together Henri Bergson's Matter and Memory and JeanPaul Sartre's Imagination and The Psychology of Imagination is the question of the ontology of the image. Bergson attempts to use the image to bridge the gap between mind and matter by refusing to distinguish clearly between what he calls “matter-images,” “perception-images,” and “memory-images.” By defining both consciousness and t...

The study investigated EFL teachers' current level of critical consciousness as well as their beliefs about the educational context where they taught. The study also explored how gender, teaching experience, workplace and academic degree differentiated the participants with regard to their critical consciousness. Drawing upon the related literature and the existing questionnaires in the field, ...

One of the aspects of consciousness deserving of study is what might be called its subjective unity—the way in which, though conscious experience moves from object to object, and can be said to have distinct ‘states,’ it nevertheless in some sense apparently forms a singular flux divided only by periods of unconsciousness. The work of William James provides a valuable, and rather unique, source...

Abstract Spontaneous brain activity changes across states of consciousness. A particular consciousness-mediated configuration is the anticorrelations between default mode network and other regions. What this antagonistic organization implies about consciousness to date remains inconclusive. In Perspective Article, we propose that are physiological expression concept segregation, namely brain’s ...

From the height of his 90 years of experience, Robert G. Shulman is not just a veteran of World War II, but a world-class biophysicist with a distinguished research career spanning the California Institute of Technology, Bell Labs, and Yale University. A forerunner in the use of nuclear magnetic resonance, Shulman contributed to the study of biochemical processes, founded the Yale Magnetic Reso...